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200 10$aNot fit for our society $enativism and immigration /$fPeter Schrag
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (315 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-25978-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aA city upon a hill -- "This visible act of ingurgitation" -- "Science" makes its case -- Preserving the race -- The great awhitening -- "They keep coming" -- A border without lines.
330   $aIn a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored our national history, and that the fear-and loathing-of newcomers has provided one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life. Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic "science" to ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against rational immigration policies. Not Fit for Our Society makes a powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform, and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who decides, and on what basis.
606   $aEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects
606   $aEmigration and immigration$xPublic opinion
606   $aEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy
606   $aNativism
606   $aEugenics
610   $aamerica.
610   $aamerican citizenship.
610   $aamerican culture.
610   $aamerican history.
610   $aamerican society.
610   $achinese immigrants.
610   $acontroversial.
610   $acurrent events.
610   $adiscussion books.
610   $afear and change.
610   $agerman immigrants.
610   $ahistorical nonfiction.
610   $aimmigrants.
610   $aimmigration debate.
610   $aimmigration policies.
610   $aimmigration.
610   $airish immigrants.
610   $aitalian immigrants.
610   $ajewish immigrants.
610   $alatino immigrants.
610   $amodern immigration.
610   $anativism.
610   $apolitical issues.
610   $apolitics.
610   $arace and immigration.
610   $asocial change.
610   $astudents and teachers.
610   $aunited states.
610   $aus history.
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615  0$aEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy.
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